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Prize 29715 - 7 June 2025 - set by Matilda for the Guardian
Across
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Queen and writer run away (8)
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Sign of ecosystem blemish (6)
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Food interchange in 2dn (9)
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Condescend to listen to European (5)
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Craft house-trained in India? (12)
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You said potential parasite or mole, for example (4)
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Soldiers to protect engineers and transporters (10)
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Joins again after finally seeing fruit (10)
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Blue feathers (4)
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Dispatching home chambers involved in protein synthesis (12)
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Hang out around a country in Africa (5)
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Providing unhealthy twist in nude dancing will be abolished (9)
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Note sent back by cheesemaker (6)
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Cultivated YMCA rose tree (8)
Down
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Long bananas as an ingredient for pesto alla genovese (4,4)
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See 1
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Call in sick? (4,2)
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Flower of Barbie’s motor world (4,9)
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12G? (8)
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Easily done, poorly seen (4,4,2)
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Artist with one vice: tiny bit of greed for making money (10)
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On record, Matilda is inspired by playing tennis with feeling (13)
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Shift gear, starting to alarm rare bird (10)
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Strict carnivore tucking right into piece of seafood (5,5)
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Start talking about the restaurant I went to last night? (8)
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Try upsetting keen tax objector (6)
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One’s into instant soup (4)
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Teddy goes regularly to gain advantage (4)